Hosting

How Do You Choose Web Hosting?

In your search for web hosting, you should consider several factors. Be aware that whatever your dream is your website is the way to tell the world about it. As a result, how your website is hosted matters. So keep these things in mind as you consider these questions.

Website

1. Are you going to build your website or are you going to hire someone? If you’re going to build it do you need help or will you build it yourself? Do you want to use a content management system or a shopping cart? These are all questions you need to ask yourself. Some web hosting options include software that helps you build a website or a shopping cart, while virtual private servers and dedicated servers leave it up to you to install the software and build everything yourself. Be realistic with yourself, so you set yourself up for success.

Cost

2. How much can you afford to spend each month? Start-up entrepreneurs or hobbyists usually don’t have a lot of money to spend on web hosting. Fortunately, our hosting plans are offered at rock bottom prices and provide quality service at very affordable prices. Compare the prices and services offered in each plan to find the one that will give you what you need. And stay within your budget.

Bandwidth

3. How much bandwidth will you need? Bandwidth is the amount of data that can transfer from your site to the rest of the online world and vice versa. An example is someone trying to download a video. They may have no problem doing that if its just that one person. But if you have several people trying to download a video at the same time and you don’t have enough bandwidth, they will experience slowness. If your website becomes too slow, your visitors will leave and go to another website and may never return. To avoid this, choose web hosting that offers enough bandwidth for your needs.

What if you don’t know how much bandwidth you need? You can always upgrade to better plan once you have an idea of how much bandwidth you’ll need. And in the beginning you aren’t likely to need a lot of bandwidth unless you have lots of videos on your website.

Disk Space

4. How much disk space with you require? When building your website, you may need to put up pictures, videos, and other large files. All these files will use up space on your website’s server. Fortunately, web hosting services come with different amounts of disk space so you can find one with the appropriate amount of disk space.

And if you don’t know how much disk space you need, you can upgrade as you notice you need more than you have available. In addition, most starting hosting plans have ample space for new websites. If you’re going to have an online store, our hosting plans for those include more disk space.

WordPress Hosting is a Great Place to Start

If you’re not very tech savvy, on a budget, and/or overwhelmed with the choices, go for WordPress Basic. WordPress is a content management system (CMS) that makes it easy to build a website and the interface is very user friendly. It also comes with security features you need to keep your website secure. WordPress is also a great choice for those that just want to focus on doing their dream and not the tech side of things. To learn more about using WordPress to support your dream, read this article on “Blogging Benefits“.